The State Department commented on Rybka's words about Russia's "interference" in US elections

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WASHINGTON, Mar 7 - RIA Novosti. The State Department does not intend to help a resident of Belorussia Nasty Rybka, who is in a Thai prison, since she is not an American citizen, said US State Department spokesman Heather Nauert. She noted that Rybka's words about the elections in the US are "a very strange story."

"We are ready to help American citizens, she is not an American citizen," Nauert said. She refused to comment on Rybka's allegations that she knows some information about "Russian interference" in the elections in the US. "It sounds like a very strange story," Nauert said.

Earlier, police in Thailand's Pattaya arrested ten people for conducting an illegal "sex training", including Anastasia Vashakevich (Nastya Rybka), eight Russians, including blogger Alexander Kirillov (Alex Leslie), as well as one Latvian citizen. They are threatened with deportation to their homeland. The English-language Internet version of the newspaper Khao Sot reported that through a foreign lawyer, the detainees handed a letter to the US Embassy in Bangkok in which all 10 people asked for protection from the United States. RT television specified that it was a question of granting political asylum.

Vaukiewicz also stated that she was ready to provide the American press with information about alleged links between the Russian Federation and US President Donald Trump and the former head of his campaign headquarters, Paul Manafort, in exchange for the release from Thailand's prison. On Monday, at the US Embassy in Minsk, commenting on the information about Vashakevich's appeal to the United States for asylum, they said that a person applying for political asylum in the United States must be in the country, and outside the US, one can only apply for refugee status.

Earlier it was also reported that the suit against Vashakevich and Kirillov was filed by businessman Oleg Deripaska because they published his photos and secretly recorded conversations in social networks.

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